I recently purchased a LiteON SOHW-1633S. It looked like a good buy and very versitile. I have been happy with the burning of my other Liteon Drives and decided to give this one a shot. They burn the Ritek A04s great, but the drive is having problems burning the New Dual Layer Ritek Disks D01. These disks aren't cheap either they are like $10. I have been in contact with Liteons Tech Support and they suggested that I upgrade to the latest firmware... Nothing.. Still errors out and gives errors when trying to burn. This problem is noted at http://www.extrememhz.com/sohw1633s-p7.shtml Take a look at it you will see what I am experiencing. I sent a Smartburn log to the Liteon Techs This is what it said.

I was wondering if anyone has been able to overcome this or possibly find a fix or firmware upgrade to this drive that will fix this problem. The Liteon techs are sending me in circles saying it will be ready next week and so on.

I have just purchased this drive myself. Had to take it back to seller because it would not play all of the brand new region 4 DVD movies that I purchased here in Australia (region 4) and the eject button on the drive would not work every time I wanted to eject a movie, even when I held the button in instead of tapping it.

They gave me another one but same problems.

I have Firmware BSOC which came with the drive but the Liteon web page for firmware only shows BSOC. I see some of you have downloaded BSOG and BSOH from another site. What is this other site? Is it safe to flash from there? Will I loose my warranty if I download from other than the Liteon site?

By the way the player came packaged with the drive and is Power DVD v5. I have the latest version and patch.I run Windows Me.

Apart from the possibility that it is a firmware problem, did you have any problems playing retail DVD movies purchased from a shop or store?

Is there a fix for my problems? I do not want to try burning yet until I get the drive working on playind DVDs and ejecting every time.